Saturday, June 17, 2017

While on Mars I have completed 81.9% of the distance to my next destination and goal point.

And I just keep going.

Jim’s Gotta Eat –

Supper a couple of nights ago night was out of this world – Chicken with Beans and Tomatoes. Found the recipe at SouffleBombay.

Genealogy –

My Y-DNA 111 testing has realized another new match. My Y-DNA matches 6 other gentlemen extremely closely with the degree of Genetic Distance between 8 and 10. That’s damn close.

Here’s the Wikipedia definition - Genetic distance is a measure of the genetic divergence between species or between populations within a species. Populations with many similar alleles have small genetic distances. This indicates that they are closely related and have a recent common ancestor.

According to this definition, it means that somehow and somewhere in some time I am related to these 6 others. The issue that I have is that I am a Smith, their surnames are Follis; Ware; Robinson; and Seymour.

This diagram sort of explains the calculation of the genetic distance between 2 markers, adding up for a total of 3.